At a recent Boston Media Makers meeting, Andy Carvin let it spill that he was going to be authoring a blog for PBS about learning, technology, and culture, called “Learning Now.” He wanted to call it “Appetite for Construction” but I guess that was a little too edgy for PBS. The site should go live in mid-April. Andy will explore how the educational establishment grapples with new social media phenomena like Wikipedia, videobloggging, and MySpace. As someone who works with technology in public schools, I think a blog like this, with the kind of national exposure PBS will bring, is long overdue. It is time for people to start talking about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the way that the education world integrates, or gets swamped by, the new technology currents swirling around it. So, whatever your “Appetite for Construction,” I hope you are ready for “Learning Now.”
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mongobrain // Apr 7, 2006 at 5:03 pm
I couldn’t get the video to play. I am curious to know when Carvin’s PBS blog is going to start.
Carl Weaver // Apr 11, 2006 at 7:33 pm
In the school I work at we are currently grappling with these issues, mainly because we are not about education because it’s cool to know stuff, but because the students have to learn a very specific set of skills and a specific body of knowledge.
In general, the web should be exploited for education. It’s a giant pool of information and other interesting stuff and it has no shallow end, except for anything relating to Paris Hilton. That whole section is shallow.
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